Publications by authors named "S R Crozier"
Article Synopsis
- Healthy food nudges may be particularly beneficial for individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, prompting a study on their effectiveness in grocery stores across different demographics.
- Researchers analyzed data from multiple trials, focusing on how characteristics like education, gender, and age impact the success of these nudges in increasing the purchase of fruits and vegetables.
- Findings revealed that, overall, healthy food nudges did not significantly influence fruit and vegetable purchases among participants, regardless of their sociodemographic profiles, suggesting the need for more effective strategies.
Background: Placement interventions, characterised by greater availability and more prominent positioning of healthy food products in supermarkets and other food stores, are associated with healthier patterns of purchasing and diet. The WRAPPED intervention study is a natural experiment that aims to evaluate a supermarket placement intervention to improve fruit and vegetable sales, household purchasing and the dietary quality of women and their children. Process evaluation, alongside the evaluation of outcomes, is essential to understand how interventions are implemented, under what circumstances they are effective, and their mechanisms of impact.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Findings from the Maternal Vitamin D Osteoporosis Study (MAVIDOS) trial demonstrated a positive effect of gestational cholecalciferol supplementation on offspring bone mineral density (BMD) at age 4 y. Demonstrating the persistence of this effect is important to understanding whether maternal vitamin D supplementation could be a useful public health strategy to improving bone health.
Objectives: We investigated whether gestational vitamin D supplementation increases offspring BMD at ages 6-7 y in an exploratory post-hoc analysis of an existing trial.